Wheel tire



Sept. 19, 1933. T. D. MAUS 1,927,801

WHEEL TIRE Filed Dec. 19. 1931 INVENTOR Tennyson D. Maui) ATTORNEYS Patented Sept. 19, 1933 r a t f 1' 1 927,301

UNITED STATES PATENT or icE WHEEL TIRE Tennyson D. Maus, Akron, Ohio, assignor to The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Application December 19, 1931' Serial No. 582,057

2 Claims. (01. 152-1) This invention relates to wheel tires and more the ends of the cable brought together and spliced, especially it relates to solid cushion tires such thus producing an annular tire structure such as as commonly are used on the wheels of juvenile is partly shown in Figure 3. In the arcuate flexl vehicles. ing of the tire to bring it to annular form, the

5 The chief object of the invention is to provide series of lugs 13 and slots 14 are on the concave 30 an improved vehicle tire of the character menside of the tire, and the result of compression on tioned which is capable of being more uniformly this side of the neutral axis of the tire is to respliced at its ends than was possible with tires duce the width of the slots so that in most endless of prior construction. More specifically the intires the lugs 13 are in rally abuttin T8181- vention aims to eliminate cross sectional distion as shown. The endless tire is stretched 65,

tortion of tires for juvenile vehicles, especially Over the rim 17. and cemented thereto in the when large-section tires are mounted upon wheel usual manner. o rims of small diameter. The feature of the lugs 13 and slots 14 on the Of the accompanying drawing: Concave side of the tire prevents transverse dis- 15 Figure 1 is a fragmentary sid l ti of a tortion of the tire when its ends are joined to make 70 tire embodying the invention in its preferred it endless, and thereby facilitates e jo i o form; said ends in a neat and uniform splice. The Figure 2 is a bottom plan view thereof; improved construction also assures that the tire Figure 3 is a fragmentary side elevation of the will fit the Wheel m transversely, and t is tire as it appears mounted upon a vehicle wheel, true with every Size of Tim a t e- 75 the latter being partly broken away and in The provision of the flanges 15 across the ends tion; and Figure 4 i a ti on t line .4 of the slots 14 causes the slot openings to be more of Figure 3. remote from the margins of the rim 1'7 whereby Referrin to th drawing t improved vehicle there is less possibility of dirt entering the slots 1 tire consists of an elongate, generally cylindrical if the tire is imperfectly cemented t0 the 80 structure 10 of vulcanized rubber composition Preferably the'tateml facet of the lugs 13 are having the usual axial recess 11 for the receparcuate as shown so that h the ends of tion of a cable by means of which the tire may are brought together f splicing t be secured to a wheel rim. On one side the tire that faces of the lugs r make local Contact is formed with a flat, longitudinally extending with each other, and theh'oher progressively 85 t d portion 1 that may include a edistinotivo creasing resistance to compression, withthe resurface configuration to prevent slippage and to Stht that the lugs have greater radial rigidity and identify the tho the tire is less likely to move relatively of the rim Diametricauy opposite the tread portion 12 in a circumferential direction due to traction the tire is formed with a longitudinally extend- Wave than it the lugs were hot in cohtact'wtth ing series of transversely disposed teeth or lugs each 7 13 t are laterally Spaced apart so as to Modification may be resorted to within the define intervening chordal slots 14, 14, the latter scope ot-the appended claims which are hot 40 being somewhat deeper in their medial portions tted Wholly to the specific construction showhwand by reason of low marginal flanges 15, 15 (Fig. 3) descnbeds I which partly obstruct the ends of said slots, said What is ctalmed v flanges constituting a continuation of the re- Awhtetttre Comprising generally Cyhhdtt' Speotivo Side walls of the tire cal rubber structure'formed on one side with a The tire may be economically manufactured longitudinal series of chordal slots and intervene in continuous lengths by extruding it from a mg lugs, the latter being closely-spaced so as lattubing machine, and concurrently impressing the t0 abut each other1when the tt-t'e 1s bent tread design 12 and the slots 14 in the plastic mato an nu1ar f0rm a so .Snaped as to offer t v terial, as by means of roller dies. The tire is vulgretslvely t t h reslstancev to compresslon canized in open heat in the usual manner. While h tlre hg 50 bent. I 6 In mounting a tire for use upon a Wheel rim, 2. A tire as defined 1n cla mvl in which the-lat- I such as the centrally grooved wheel rim 17, a piece t a1 faces 9 the lugs are muntedm the three" 7 t of proper length is severed from the continuous non of their depth 1 tire structure 10, a cable 18 is threaded through TENNYSON U the axial aperture 11 of the severed length, and t 110 

